[Trombone-l] Using long URLs in e-mail messages

[Tom Gibson]

Ingenious!

Dr. Tom Gibson
Tom at trombonelessons.com


On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:14 PM, "Price Taylor" <pricetaylor at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> T-listers - the URL issue that doesn't work when clicked is easily  
> avoidable
> for long URLs that truncate in mail messages by doing one extra step  
> and
> that is to use one of two quick and easy websites.
>
> Both www.snipurl.com and www.tinyurl.com take long URLs and convert  
> them
> into short ones.
>
> Simply copy the full URL from the browser, paste into one of those  
> programs
> and it will return to you a 6 character link.  Copy that and paste  
> it into
> your e-mail message.  When someone clicks on the snipurl or tinyurl  
> link, it
> redirects to the desired website.
>
> Tuning slide grease (compulsory trombone comment) =)
>
> Price Taylor
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